PNP leader to address Barbados Labour Party conference on Sunday

Peter Phillips, leader of the Opposition and president of the People’s National Party (PNP), left the island Thursday for Bridgetown, Barbados, where he is scheduled to address the 80th Barbados Labour Party (BLP) annual conference as guest speaker at its session on Sunday.

On Saturday, BLP Leader, Prime Minister Mia Mottley, will address her party faithful for the first time since the historic landslide victory in May.

The conference is part of a calendar of special celebrations being held by the BLP to observe its 80th anniversary, having been founded by a group led by the Federal Prime Minister, Sir Grantley Adams in 1938, the same year in which the PNP was founded under the leadership of Norman Manley. Both parties were founded during the 1938 labour unrests, as trade unions fought for better wages and improved working conditions.

“Both the PNP and the BLP have been long-time partners working for the advancement of Caribbean peoples, having come out of the crucible of social upheaval of those times, and both have been historically committed to a people-centred philosophy,” Phillips said.

The Opposition leader returns to Jamaica on Monday.

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